Outlook.com
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Outlook.com, formerly Hotmail, is a free personal email service offered by Microsoft. This includes a webmail interface featuring mail, calendaring, contacts, and tasks services. Outlook can also be accessed via email clients using the IMAP or POP protocols.
Type of site | Webmail, calendaring, contacts, and tasks |
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Available in | 106 languages |
Owner | Microsoft |
URL | outlook |
Commercial | Yes |
Registration | Required |
Users | 500 million[1] |
Launched | July 4, 1996; 27 years ago (1996-07-04) (as Hotmail) July 31, 2012; 11 years ago (2012-07-31) (as Outlook.com) |
Content license | Proprietary and Free [citation needed] |
Founded in 1996 by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith as Hotmail, it was acquired by Microsoft in 1997 for an estimated $400 million,[1][2] with it becoming part of the MSN family of online services, branded as MSN Hotmail.[3] In May 2007, the service was rebranded to Windows Live Hotmail, as part of the Windows Live suite of products.[4] It was changed back to Hotmail in October 2011[5] and was fully replaced by Outlook in February 2013,[6] sharing the same brand as the Microsoft Outlook software which is offered via a Microsoft 365 (formerly Microsoft Office) subscription.[7]
Outlook is offered with any Microsoft account, using @outlook.com, @hotmail.com, @msn.com,[lower-alpha 1] as well as @live.com and @passport.com domains. The @live.com and @passport.com domains, as well as various other domains are no longer offered.[8]